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Welsh Megaman wrote: »

I'm guessing 'Happy Birthday' might be number one

:pac:

If the songwriters get royalties every time this programme is repeated, whoever wrote the song which came 11th must have missed out on thousands of pounds. Or maybe billions.

Hello, apparently Bob Geldof was only in Britain's Best Part Time Band for one week. This time Peter Hooky Hook takes time out from slagging off the rest of New Order to search for the next Bombskare.

Not much else although some of the Guitar Compilation Repeats are better than usual ...



Thursday

7.30pm & 1am Top Of The Pops 1981 #31
Kid Jensen presents the December 3 edition, with Bad Manners, Soft Cell, Duran Duran, the Fun Boy Three, Status Quo, Godley and Creme, the Human League and Julio Iglesias



Friday

7.30pm & Midnight Top Of The Pops 1981 #32
Simon Bates presents an edition from December 1981, featuring performances by Duran Duran, the Snowmen, Cliff Richard, Chas & Dave, Brown Sauce, Rod Stewart and Human League

9pm & 12.35am UK's Best Part Time Band (Ep 2)
Comedian Rhod Gilbert and former New Order bassist Peter Hook set off across northern England and the Midlands to discover Britain's finest music groups. The tour takes them to Liverpool, where they meet a primary school teacher and part-time lead singer, who treats them to an intimate band rehearsal in his mum's bedroom, while Hooky also relives his punk youth with a band made up of junior doctors in Sheffield. The pair meet a father and daughter who have a bizarre connection to Noel Gallagher and the Definitely Maybe album, and at the end of the tour, five acts are selected to play the biggest gig of their lives, at the Leadmill in Sheffield

10pm & 1.35am When Pop Ruled My Life:The Fans' Story
From the Beatles to One Direction, there has always been a unique relationship between musicians and their fans. Journalist Kate Mossman explores how this connection has developed over the past 50 years of music, as well as her own evolving fascination with the band Queen

11pm & 2.35am Guitar Heroes At The BBC
Archive footage of guitarists taken from BBC music shows of the 1970s. Includes electric performances by Carlos Santana, Mark Knopfler, Peter Green and the Edge, and acoustic material by John Martyn, John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Paco Pena

11.35pm UEFA EURO 2016 Official Concert Thing (RTE2)
Highlights from the Champ de Mars in Paris, including a performance of the official UEFA EURO 2016 song - This One's For You by David Guetta featuring Zara Larsson

12.20am Sinatra 100: An All Star Grammy Concert (RTE1)
Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the singer's birth, with arrangements of some of his best-known songs by artists including Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, Usher and Alicia Keys at the Encore Theatre in Las Vegas, featuring rare archive footage narrated by Sinatra himself



Saturday

10.45pm & 2.55am Great Guitar Riffs At The BBC
A compilation of archive clips and performances which include some of the most memorable guitar riffs of all time. Featuring Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Cream, AC/DC, the Smiths, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Pixies and the Stone Roses

11.45pm Guitar Heroes At The BBC
More Guitar Heroes Archive performances by celebrated musicians Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Peter Green and Johnny Winter. Other artists featured include Manitas de Plata, Ry Cooder, Thin Lizzy and AC/DC, while Fleetwood Mac's Albatross and In the City by the Jam are among the classic songs seen again in clips from the BBC's 1970s music shows

12.45am Van Morrison: Up on Cyprus Avenue
Highlights of Van Morrison's unique live performance recorded on his 70th birthday in August 2015, on the Belfast avenue he made famous through the iconic album Astral Weeks

1.45am Top Of The Pops 1981 #31
Same as Thursday

2.20am Top Of The Pops 1981 #32
Same as Friday


Sunday

10pm Britain's Best Part Time Band (Ep 1) (BBC 2)
New series. Comedian Rhod Gilbert and Sir Bob Geldof Ultravox frontman Midge Ure set off on an epic road trip across Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to discover Britain's finest music groups, witnessing musicians playing in rehearsal spaces, pubs, barns and bedrooms. From across the UK, more than 1,200 bands have entered the competition, playing rock to reggae, ska to skiffle, bhangra to blues and everything in between. Eventually five acts are selected for a regional heat in Belfast, where they compete for a place in the grand final


Sky Arts has lots of Queen on Saturday, and a documentary about The Who Managers, Lambert and Stamp on Sunday at 11.25pm. They set out to make a Doc about The Who, and ended up becoming their managers. Something like that anyway




Elsewhere there's that Ray, the Ray Charles Movie (Watch, Friday 10.40pm)




Sure if there's nothing there, at least the Football is starting!

Hello, if you have been following The UK's Best Part Time Band, it comes to an end this weekend with some messy scheduling. Part 3 is on BBC Four on Friday and then the final is on BBC Two on Saturday. Series Link unfriendly scheduling, there. Jazzie B of Soul II Soul joins Rhod for Part 3, hopefully he will be selective, be objective and be an asset to the collective when he is picking finalists, ahem.

Elsewhere TOTP 1981 comes to an end and we get the now regular Doc welcoming the new TOTP year. If it's Lionel Richie you're looking for, then you'll find him on Saturday night. Glastonbury coming soon ...



Thursday

7.30pm & 1.10am Top Of The Pops 1981 #33 Christmas Eve Show!
Kid Jensen presents the December 24 edition, featuring Bucks Fizz, ABBA, the Police, Roy Wood & Wizzard, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Altered Images and Human League

1.55am Great Guitar Riffs at The BBC
A compilation of archive clips and performances which include some of the most memorable guitar riffs of all time. Featuring Jimi Hendrix, the Kinks, Cream, AC/DC, the Smiths, Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Pixies and the Stone Roses



Friday

7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops 1981 #34 New Years Eve Show!
Mike Read presents the biggest hits of 1981, in an edition first broadcast on New Year's Eve of that year. Featuring performances by Adam and the Ants, John Lennon, Roxy Music, Aneka, the Police, the Specials, Joe Dolce, Julio Iglesias, Bucks Fizz, Soft Cell, Smokey Robinson, Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, and the Human League (The Midnight broadcast is a bit longer)

8.45pm Sounds of The Seventies
Archive hits, featuring Roxy Music's Ladytron, Elton John's The Bitch Is Back and Queen's Killer Queen

8.55pm Pop Go The Sixties
Music by Peter and Gordon from the BBC's extensive archives

9pm UK's Best Part Time Band (Part 3)
Comedian Rhod Gilbert continues his epic road trip, this time meeting up with Jazzie B to travel across southern England in search of leading amateur musicians. The tour sees them come across six-piece Country & Western outfit The Redhillbillies in Somerset and a guitar-based four-piece called Russian Flying Squirrel in Stroud

9.35pm Film: Walk The Line (RTE2)
Biopic of country singer Johnny Cash. Traumatised by the death of his brother as a child and scorned by his father, Cash leaves Arkansas to serve in the US Air Force in Germany, where he starts to write songs. Although reaching a high point in his career touring alongside Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, he descends into drink and drug addiction, while fellow singer and future wife June Carter seems to be the only person standing between him and self-destruction. With Joaquin Phoenix and an Oscar-winning Reese Witherspoon

10pm Top of The Pops: The Story of 1982
A look back at the year that marked the peak of British New Pop as Wham!, ABC and Culture Club all made appearances. Dexys Midnight Runners' new Irish sound topped the summer charts for four weeks with Come on Eileen and their follow-up, Jackie Wilson Says, led to a notorious moment in TOTP history. Plus, Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniel introduced the moonwalk to British television

11pm Top of The Pops: 1982 Big Hits
Featuring Adam Ant, Yazoo, Wham, ABC and the Associates, all breakthrough acts in a golden year for British pop. Madness provide a little two-step with their ska revival, and Junior and Patrice Rushen's R'n'B tracks pack a punch. Pop-infused reggae beats are provided by Culture Club and Musical Youth, while the mods get a nod from the Jam and there's a performance by Tight Fit

11.35pm Artsnight (BBC2)
Lynn Barber meets the members of British rock band Mumford & Sons, who discuss their varied influences and tastes, as well as their musical collaborations. This year will see the band tour three continents, headlining at London's Hyde Park, and the release of the album Johannesburg, recorded with Senegalese singer and guitarist Baaba Maal



Saturday

10pm UK's Best Part Time Band (Final!, BBC2)
The nationwide amateur band contest reaches its conclusion as the six finalists and their celebrity mentors try to outperform each other in a `battle of the bands' concert at the RItz in Manchester. Ultravox frontman Midge Ure selected two acts from Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, while New Order basist Peter Hook picked the contingent from northern England. Jazzie B, meanwhile, chose the south's acts, picking out Garage punks King Salami. As each act performs an original tune and a cover song, members of the audience will vote to determine which group will be named Britain's Best Part-Time band

10.30pm Film Rock of Ages (TG4)
An aspiring singer falls for a band's lead vocalist while working as a waitress in a live music club. The owner of the venue hopes to turn its struggling fortunes around by booking a famous rock act - but ends up faced with protests against the controversial star. Musical featuring rock songs from the 1980s, starring Julianne Hough, Tom Cruise, Diego Boneta, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Russell Brand

10.45pm & 3am Glastonbury 2015: Lionel Richie
A chance to revisit the US soul singer's performance at Glastonbury Festival last year. Making his debut appearance at Worthy Farm, Richie played the Sunday afternoon Legends slot, which had previously been occupied by the likes of Dolly Parton and Paul Simon, and this year saw ELO take to the stage. Lionel's set featured classic songs from his time with the Commodores, along with many of his solo hits, including Dancing on the Ceiling and All Night Long - the latter of which prompted a wide-scale singalong from the crowd gathered at the Pyramid Stage

11.45pm Glastonbury Golden Greats
A reflection on some of the most popular acts to perform at the music festival over the years, including Shirley Bassey, Tony Bennett, Neil Diamond, Al Green, Willie Nelson, BB King, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton's Legends set from the 2014 event

12.40am Disco at the BBC
Archive performances of disco classics by acts including Chic, Rose Royce, Labelle, Gladys Knight and Village People, from shows such as Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Later with Jools Holland

1.40am Top of The Pops 1981 #33 Christmas Eve
Same as Thurday

2.20am Top of The Pops 1981 #34 New Years Eve
Same as Friday



Sky Arts has coverage of The Isle of Wight Festival (The Who, Stereophonics, the remainder of Queen, Faithless and others. They also have a new series of their Guitar Star programme, where Tony Visconti, George Benson and Milos give amateur axe wielders their chance to shine.

Walk The Line listed up above, If it was up to me Joaquin Phoenix would have won a big bag of Oscars. Ah well.

I enjoyed the Asian Folky type group who sounded a bit like Horslips at times.

Although I think they were called 'Side Parting', which might be the worst band name I've ever heard.

Quite a few bands there who would be worth seeing live, can't argue with who went through.

Only You is a class song. Timeless.

Kylie and James (ahem) Corden did quite a nice version of it last year.